#Monthly Performance

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[stillmevalz]

/ gsnk spoilers /

"Hey, senpai... Don't stop loving theater. Even if you're on stage, even if you're not, keep those eyes on the stage and never take your eyes off me. Not even once. Keep your eyes fixed on me, your Kashima."

[clown-femme]

LinkedIn is a miserable website for many reasons and one of those is because companies will post polls like

"Which of these is most important to you when choosing a new organization to work for 🙌 ?"

- The pay

- Integration of new technologies

- Company culture

- CEO reputation

And then the results will be like 87% 'the pay' because companies on LinkedIn seem to forget that people do jobs in order to be compensated and it's almost embarrassing that they'd post polls like this expecting to create a thinkpiece about how company culture is more important than the pay or something and that's why you should force your team on more company outings. Or whatever.

[mia-seth-adventures]

▼ Brandy - Beggin & Pleadin - Live

[shmreduplication]

250 shows on the spreadsheet!

[feddy-34]

see one of the reasons why i hate elongated muskrat and his aerospace money laundering operation is because everything they make is SO GODDAMN UGLY

(engineer ranting below)(you have been warned‼️)

like look at this:

this is spacex's suit prototype for polaris dawn (which is another shitshow entirely that ill maybe make a post abt). now you may be thinking, but wait a minute! why is it so skinny? are they giving ozempic to space suits now??

that's because you're thinking of this bad boy:

this is NASA's EMU (extravehicular mobility unit) meant for performing tasks in space like, say, cleaning the solar panels on the ISS or repairing the million parts that have broken since launch. it's entirely self sustainable for over 8 hours, with its own life support, propulsion pack, and a bunch of other shit. it's been in use for over a zillion years and it's finally getting phased out for the artemis missions. thing is an absolute unit.

spacex's suit is a different kind of space suit, called an umbilical suit. these suits are not self sustaining, instead being attached to the ship/module/whatever via a cord. hence the name. the cord provides both oxygen and communications support. they were used by NASA during the 60s but were quickly abandoned because having a non-self sustaining suit for spacewalks is fucking stupid.

lets compare spacex's suit again:

(gross ugly lame boring puke emoji)

to NASA's version from the gemini missions:

thats fucking badass. do you see how badass that is? look at him. look at how cool he looks. you could never be that cool. ever.

[oldmanffucker]

thinking about artist Archie and Frenchie both pulling random fluxus/grapefruit prompts and doing them together. Then it becoming a weekly Revenge artist exercise.

Fluxus (experimental art movement) and Grapefruit (book by Yoko Ono that embodied Fluxus) - basically ‘event scores’ or prompts for (often) performance art. They were often absurd, often ephemeral or esoteric or inevitable. Examples:

(tape piece iii and walking piece from Grapefruit by Yoko Ono George Brecht. Games and Puzzles (Name Kit) from Fluxkit. 1965, Fluxus Edition announced 1965 Page from Fluxus 1, containing ‘Flux Napkin’. 1964, Fluxus Edition announced 1966) (God I’m crying reading Grapefruit now. Being a pisces is hard work but someone’s gotta do it [PDF])

but anyway I can perfectly imagine Archie’s smile and laugh and body language while they do some of the sillier prompts, and Frenchie’s little smirk. It’s the smirk of pyramid scheme and authentic planks. The events that ask for silence, they do with permanent little smiles channeling the silliest and most earnest intentionality that you can’t NOT look at it and not be soppy about it.

Fluxus isn’t just prompts or events, it’s a whole movement. It’s about accessibility of art, it’s about making art constantly, it’s about being anti-art, it’s about subverting the capitalist ideas of art. But to me it’s a beautiful exercise in opening yourself to the vastness of art. Everything is and can be art, from the sound of silence to the crushing of stones to the using of a napkin to taking a walk with someone. It’s down to intention, it’s down to openness, It’s down to earnestness and curiosity. It’s down to being receptive and most importantly PLAYFULNESS. It’s about letting art be low stakes and letting art into every moment of your life. It’s about embodying art.

Plus, Izzy would love this bc that sub loves to follow a direction. Man is lost in subspace watching the stars and turning on and off his headlights and walking in someone else’s footsteps.

(If all of those examples sounded insane and esoteric, here are more links to Fluxus things. First publication (poetry! Music! Vehicles! John Cage! Yoko Ono! Nam June Paik!) ‘An Anthology of Chance Operations’, and archive of fluxus artbooks: fluxus 1, fluxkit, and flux year box 2)

Even more emotional thinking abt how in college, in his really intense performance art and physical exertion phase, Izzy loved Fluxus and the idea of art being that and following directions and experiencing something new from it.

Then he gets to know the crew eventually, And finds out they do this. And oh, he’s taken aback. Launched back to being 19, to grieving his sister and transitioning and experiencing lack of bodily autonomy and finding refuge in performance art. And fondness bubbles up so hot and acrid he has to step outside. After that he’s part of the weekly events. He and the crew relish the events that take the most time, like the walking piece. The crew is fascinated by his earnestness and tenacity when so often before they only saw perfection and persnicketiness.

[originally posted as a twt thread]

[haichengtual]

a great month for me :-)

[are-we-really-doing-this]

Me when ^^^

[doomednarrative]

Just started crying while watching a video of one of Miku's Magical Mirai performances so thats how my nights going

[qualitytothetea]

queer joy is watching ur friends experience rocky horror w u <33

[imtooobsessedrn]

im sorry theyre just soo CUTE I CANTTT-

[4giorno]

omg wait only 20 days until hsr ps5 release?????

[jooyeone]

i swear i am a protagonist in a kafka novel with this job sometimes

[burnedhoney]

I’ve been looking forward to this ballet class for months and it’s fucking dropped. I wanna cry and break something. This was like the only adult class that’s affordable that works with my work schedule. Every other adult class offered is so fuckinf expensive and I’m so fucking broke. I’m really upset and I don’t know what to do

[sensationalsegue]

“Hatto was a founding member of the celebrated Alban Berg Quartet, and was a passionate exponent of chamber music: music on a human scale, with a single voice to a part, ideally heard in the intimate setting of a chamber or a room rather than in a cavernous concert hall. As we played the Mendelssohn trio, trying desperately to impress him, he listened patiently and then gently lifted his hand for us to stop.

"Do not just count in this entry," he said, softly but emphatically. "If you just count, it is just business in music. Instead, this entry must occur at the exact moment you all feel it must occur."

And so we tried once again - staring intently at each other as if we could will ourselves into perfect ensemble - but again he raised his hand.

"There is a difference between the Ancient Greek concept of Chronos," he observed, "which is time that can be measured, and Kairos, which means the right time. Simply play these chords at the moment they demand to be heard."

As soon as we did this - as soon as we stopped trying to second-guess each other, but instead surrendered to that collective knowledge - our ensemble worked. And in a way, all of our work since has been guided by this notion of Kairos: of seeking the right, shared moment.”

~ Anna Goldsworthy, “Notes for a better world - on the beauty and necessity of music”. From The Monthly, Dec 2024 - Jan 2025 Summer Reading Edition.